Blizzard wasn't making Ghost. It was being made by a third party (the name escapes me), with Blizzard being given approval over it. They canned it for not meeting their standards.
I like my PSP, but you're right...there are not very many good games for it. I have about 6. However, it is very useful to me as an mp3 and video player (encoding stuff to it that is, not buying overpriced UMD movies). I do have to say, however, that the good games (as few as they may be) tend to be really good.
Well if you REALLY want to get technical, John de Lancie WAS in Stargate SG-1. He was one of the antagonists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Simmons_(Stargate)#Frank_Simmons
However, I do agree with your assessment that the OP got TNG and SG-1 confused, since his comment clearly refers to Q rather than Frank Simmons.
You practically have to opt into this already. Every phone I've ever seen has TWO options for the GPS receiver: "Location on" and "911 only". MOST phones I've seen default to on. However, just change this to "911 only" and the phone's GPS only activates when you dial 911. Problem solved.
Doctors that prescribe antibiotics as a placebo for a viral infection should be removed from practicing medicine. If they want to prescribe things like aspirin or vitamins for a placebo, fine...that won't hurt anything. But using antibiotics in this way is dangerous. If you do not have a bacterial infection that requires you to take an antibiotic, then they should NOT be used. Misuse of antibiotics like this is breeding strains of antibiotic-resistant super-bacteria. I pity anyone who doesn't have a very strong immune system if this keeps up - within a few decades antibiotics won't work anymore and the only solution to bacterial infections will be "your immune system will make you well on your own, or you will die".
This is the main problem that people fail to understand. The gold that is "sold" by these guys is not earned through farming, or even legitimately. In fact, the sellers don't earn it at all. It is stolen from hacked accounts.
The more people buy gold, the more incentive to produce keyloggers to get people's usernames/passwords, so that they can strip their toons naked, sell everything sellable, and send all the gold off to be "sold". This harms the game, regardless of which game it is.
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I don't understand the whole "miniature black hole" thing. I think the naysayers have just been reading too much sci-fi. Microscopic black holes would evaporate in a very small amount of time due to Hawking radiation...they would leave a detectable energy signature so that we could tell they were there, but that's about it. The LHC won't be doing anything that isn't already happening in the upper atmosphere due to cosmic rays anyway.
Yes...I could see an issue if Psystar was making some sort of claim that Apple has to support their OSX endeavours. But they're not...if Apple only wants to *support* their OS on their hardware, that is their right. But they should not have the right to prohibit running the OS on other hardware either. Of course, it would be unsupported, but so are a lot of things. Most flavors of Linux are completely unsupported also, unless you get something like RHEL that comes with a support contract.
Drat, what am I going to eat now? In light of this news, I am going to have to remove LED's from my diet. And they are so tasty.
On a side note, a LOT of chemicals used to manufacture things are highly poisonous. But this is generally only a danger to those doing the manufacturing, and only if they don't take proper precautions.
It doesn't...they are describing a thin client. While I agree that thin clients are nice in a lot of situations, there is no way in hell I would use a thin client as my primary OS. And I will not use a thin client at all (well, outside of a corporate/work environment anyway) unless *I* control the server for it. If I want to put a couple thin client terminals around my house that run off my Linux server, fine.
I'm curious how they think a thin client will work as a primary OS anyway. It won't...you have to have SOME OS on the computer. And I really don't think anyone is going to be using PXE over the internet.
Interesting...dnsmasq could very well be the culprit there. I don't use it myself. Of course if you were using a Linux box as a router, you could just ssh in and restart dnsmasq, but on a standalone router that's hard to do unless you are using OpenWRT or something like that. I use a fully configured BIND and dhcpd setup on my router...even though BIND is probably overkill for a home network.
I too have observed this with most consumer routers. As a previous poster said, the older Linksys ones (which ran on Linux and had plenty of memory) didn't really have this issue. The majority of today's Linksys routers, however, run on VXWorks and don't have nearly enough memory. There are still Linux based ones available but they are more expensive and hard to find.
On a side note, my roommate has a cheap D-Link wireless access point (not a router, just a wireless access point), and it has to be rebooted every 2-3 days.
What I did to get rid of this "router rebooting" problem was build my own. Mini-ITX motherboard with dual NIC's, small slight-bigger-than-Gamecube sized case, gig of RAM, 160GB hard drive, minimal Gentoo installation (no X or anything like that). It runs headless and never reboots...I had a 1-year uptime on the thing before I had to move. It's back up to about 2 months now (updated the kernel 2 months ago shortly after I moved). I do run it on a UPS, also.
Sorry, but that is absolutely *ridiculous*. Sure, the guy is a murderer. Fine. He killed his wife, he got convicted, he will get what's coming to him. That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the file system that he created. A file system is technology, it doesn't care about the morals of the person who made it. Work on that will be taken over by others, who will continue it - this is the nature of GPL software. If there is enough backlash, they may change the name. But not using a particular technology just because of the person who made it (I'm actually leaning toward mentally ill rather than psychopath for him) is stupid. VW was originally started by Hitler, does that mean everyone should stop buying their cars?
While that is true, zinc oxide is left behind as a result. The zinc is still there, just in a different form. There's no reason you can't reverse this reaction and convert the zinc oxide back to zinc. Yes there is an energy cost involved, but just because a metal is oxidized doesn't mean it's gone forever. If that were true there would be no way to produce metals from ore.
Wrong. The WOW servers have never once been compromised. It's not WOW that's being compromised, it's the *player's computers* that are getting trojan'd/keylogged.
And the "lag spikes" and "random disconnects" are usually happening to people with wireless-N, which is *not a standard*...it's basically beta and has a ton of problems.
And blaming Blizzard for WOW "causing" people's routers to reset? I don't care what kind of data you're sending out, if it causes your modem or router to reset, then the problem is in the device, not the game.
I went out of my way to find an HDTV that did not support HDCP. I'm surprised I was able to find one actually, but it's a Samsung 20" widescreen unit. It has a DVI port, but it specifically says "cannot be used with any HDCP sources". And the manual specifically states that HDCP is not supported. It was priced much less than other seemingly comparable units too, and it's been great for the year and a half that I've had it. I only use it for my DVD player and a few game consoles also, as I have not had any type of TV service at home since I cancelled my cable in 1998.
While Flash does have its uses (videos, sites like Homestarrunner, etc), making Flash-based websites in general usually just makes for horrible unusable sites. I can't stand going to a site and having the *entire page* just being a flashblock icon, knowing that when I click it I'll have to trudge through a slow, horribly designed site.
You want to do animation or something like that (like Homestarrunner), sure Flash is fine for that. But PLEASE don't use it to make your site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_2
Makes me wonder how many other things Kojima came up with YEARS ago turn out to be real. If a giant ray-shaped submersible crashes into New York next year, then I guess we'll know...
It was due to this crap that I had my cable TV shut off in 1998, and I have not gotten it again since. "Nothing on TV worth watching anymore" notwithstanding, the only way I would consider it again is if I could watch everything through a MythTV box, without using a separate cable box. That won't happen, but the way I see it, I'm not missing anything anyway.
"The sender of this message has requested to be notified when you read this message. Would you like to send confirmation to the sender?"
I may be paraphrasing slightly, I don't remember the exact wording.
They aren't even blocking them...they just aren't offering them on their newsgroup servers anymore. The solution - run your own NNTP server. I don't use my ISP's DNS or email, why would I use their newgroup servers?
Hey, I take any chance I possibly can to flame Microsoft, since I literally depise them. But I can't find anything to flame here...it's not Microsoft's issue, it is *clearly* the router manufacturer's issue.
Even though I am normally severely anti-Microsoft in every way possible, I have to bite the bullet and agree with you here. NO computer connected to a router should ever be able to crash it, no matter what happens. Even if Windows is severely broken and sends all manner of bad packets out, the router should be able to handle it without error (even if it just involves dropping the packets). If it crashes, it's the router's fault.
A similar issue has been happening with WOW lately, something about the packets that WOW is sending out is causing certain routers and modems to crash. Blizzard is actually being quite generous in working with the router manufacturers to help find the problem, even though it is not their problem at all. Though the number of idiots on the forums insisting that it is a WOW problem is rather annoying.
Myself, I don't have this problem, because I don't use consumer routers...I built my own out of some mini-ITX hardware and Gentoo.
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Blizzard wasn't making Ghost. It was being made by a third party (the name escapes me), with Blizzard being given approval over it. They canned it for not meeting their standards.
I like my PSP, but you're right...there are not very many good games for it. I have about 6. However, it is very useful to me as an mp3 and video player (encoding stuff to it that is, not buying overpriced UMD movies). I do have to say, however, that the good games (as few as they may be) tend to be really good.
Well if you REALLY want to get technical, John de Lancie WAS in Stargate SG-1. He was one of the antagonists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Simmons_(Stargate)#Frank_Simmons However, I do agree with your assessment that the OP got TNG and SG-1 confused, since his comment clearly refers to Q rather than Frank Simmons.
You practically have to opt into this already. Every phone I've ever seen has TWO options for the GPS receiver: "Location on" and "911 only". MOST phones I've seen default to on. However, just change this to "911 only" and the phone's GPS only activates when you dial 911. Problem solved.
Doctors that prescribe antibiotics as a placebo for a viral infection should be removed from practicing medicine. If they want to prescribe things like aspirin or vitamins for a placebo, fine...that won't hurt anything. But using antibiotics in this way is dangerous. If you do not have a bacterial infection that requires you to take an antibiotic, then they should NOT be used. Misuse of antibiotics like this is breeding strains of antibiotic-resistant super-bacteria. I pity anyone who doesn't have a very strong immune system if this keeps up - within a few decades antibiotics won't work anymore and the only solution to bacterial infections will be "your immune system will make you well on your own, or you will die".
This is the main problem that people fail to understand. The gold that is "sold" by these guys is not earned through farming, or even legitimately. In fact, the sellers don't earn it at all. It is stolen from hacked accounts. The more people buy gold, the more incentive to produce keyloggers to get people's usernames/passwords, so that they can strip their toons naked, sell everything sellable, and send all the gold off to be "sold". This harms the game, regardless of which game it is.
I don't understand the whole "miniature black hole" thing. I think the naysayers have just been reading too much sci-fi. Microscopic black holes would evaporate in a very small amount of time due to Hawking radiation...they would leave a detectable energy signature so that we could tell they were there, but that's about it. The LHC won't be doing anything that isn't already happening in the upper atmosphere due to cosmic rays anyway.
Yes...I could see an issue if Psystar was making some sort of claim that Apple has to support their OSX endeavours. But they're not...if Apple only wants to *support* their OS on their hardware, that is their right. But they should not have the right to prohibit running the OS on other hardware either. Of course, it would be unsupported, but so are a lot of things. Most flavors of Linux are completely unsupported also, unless you get something like RHEL that comes with a support contract.
Drat, what am I going to eat now? In light of this news, I am going to have to remove LED's from my diet. And they are so tasty. On a side note, a LOT of chemicals used to manufacture things are highly poisonous. But this is generally only a danger to those doing the manufacturing, and only if they don't take proper precautions.
It doesn't...they are describing a thin client. While I agree that thin clients are nice in a lot of situations, there is no way in hell I would use a thin client as my primary OS. And I will not use a thin client at all (well, outside of a corporate/work environment anyway) unless *I* control the server for it. If I want to put a couple thin client terminals around my house that run off my Linux server, fine. I'm curious how they think a thin client will work as a primary OS anyway. It won't...you have to have SOME OS on the computer. And I really don't think anyone is going to be using PXE over the internet.
Interesting...dnsmasq could very well be the culprit there. I don't use it myself. Of course if you were using a Linux box as a router, you could just ssh in and restart dnsmasq, but on a standalone router that's hard to do unless you are using OpenWRT or something like that. I use a fully configured BIND and dhcpd setup on my router...even though BIND is probably overkill for a home network.
I too have observed this with most consumer routers. As a previous poster said, the older Linksys ones (which ran on Linux and had plenty of memory) didn't really have this issue. The majority of today's Linksys routers, however, run on VXWorks and don't have nearly enough memory. There are still Linux based ones available but they are more expensive and hard to find. On a side note, my roommate has a cheap D-Link wireless access point (not a router, just a wireless access point), and it has to be rebooted every 2-3 days. What I did to get rid of this "router rebooting" problem was build my own. Mini-ITX motherboard with dual NIC's, small slight-bigger-than-Gamecube sized case, gig of RAM, 160GB hard drive, minimal Gentoo installation (no X or anything like that). It runs headless and never reboots...I had a 1-year uptime on the thing before I had to move. It's back up to about 2 months now (updated the kernel 2 months ago shortly after I moved). I do run it on a UPS, also.
Yes it could! All you have to do is go out and pick flowers, and you can make lots of health and mana pots.
Sorry, but that is absolutely *ridiculous*. Sure, the guy is a murderer. Fine. He killed his wife, he got convicted, he will get what's coming to him. That has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the file system that he created. A file system is technology, it doesn't care about the morals of the person who made it. Work on that will be taken over by others, who will continue it - this is the nature of GPL software. If there is enough backlash, they may change the name. But not using a particular technology just because of the person who made it (I'm actually leaning toward mentally ill rather than psychopath for him) is stupid. VW was originally started by Hitler, does that mean everyone should stop buying their cars?
While that is true, zinc oxide is left behind as a result. The zinc is still there, just in a different form. There's no reason you can't reverse this reaction and convert the zinc oxide back to zinc. Yes there is an energy cost involved, but just because a metal is oxidized doesn't mean it's gone forever. If that were true there would be no way to produce metals from ore.
Wrong. The WOW servers have never once been compromised. It's not WOW that's being compromised, it's the *player's computers* that are getting trojan'd/keylogged. And the "lag spikes" and "random disconnects" are usually happening to people with wireless-N, which is *not a standard*...it's basically beta and has a ton of problems. And blaming Blizzard for WOW "causing" people's routers to reset? I don't care what kind of data you're sending out, if it causes your modem or router to reset, then the problem is in the device, not the game.
I went out of my way to find an HDTV that did not support HDCP. I'm surprised I was able to find one actually, but it's a Samsung 20" widescreen unit. It has a DVI port, but it specifically says "cannot be used with any HDCP sources". And the manual specifically states that HDCP is not supported. It was priced much less than other seemingly comparable units too, and it's been great for the year and a half that I've had it. I only use it for my DVD player and a few game consoles also, as I have not had any type of TV service at home since I cancelled my cable in 1998.
While Flash does have its uses (videos, sites like Homestarrunner, etc), making Flash-based websites in general usually just makes for horrible unusable sites. I can't stand going to a site and having the *entire page* just being a flashblock icon, knowing that when I click it I'll have to trudge through a slow, horribly designed site. You want to do animation or something like that (like Homestarrunner), sure Flash is fine for that. But PLEASE don't use it to make your site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_2 Makes me wonder how many other things Kojima came up with YEARS ago turn out to be real. If a giant ray-shaped submersible crashes into New York next year, then I guess we'll know...
It was due to this crap that I had my cable TV shut off in 1998, and I have not gotten it again since. "Nothing on TV worth watching anymore" notwithstanding, the only way I would consider it again is if I could watch everything through a MythTV box, without using a separate cable box. That won't happen, but the way I see it, I'm not missing anything anyway.
"The sender of this message has requested to be notified when you read this message. Would you like to send confirmation to the sender?" I may be paraphrasing slightly, I don't remember the exact wording.
They aren't even blocking them...they just aren't offering them on their newsgroup servers anymore. The solution - run your own NNTP server. I don't use my ISP's DNS or email, why would I use their newgroup servers?
Hey, I take any chance I possibly can to flame Microsoft, since I literally depise them. But I can't find anything to flame here...it's not Microsoft's issue, it is *clearly* the router manufacturer's issue.
Even though I am normally severely anti-Microsoft in every way possible, I have to bite the bullet and agree with you here. NO computer connected to a router should ever be able to crash it, no matter what happens. Even if Windows is severely broken and sends all manner of bad packets out, the router should be able to handle it without error (even if it just involves dropping the packets). If it crashes, it's the router's fault. A similar issue has been happening with WOW lately, something about the packets that WOW is sending out is causing certain routers and modems to crash. Blizzard is actually being quite generous in working with the router manufacturers to help find the problem, even though it is not their problem at all. Though the number of idiots on the forums insisting that it is a WOW problem is rather annoying. Myself, I don't have this problem, because I don't use consumer routers...I built my own out of some mini-ITX hardware and Gentoo.
Personally, I used the Gamecube controller to play DBZ. I couldn't stand the Wii controls, they were horribly unresponsive and unnatural.